The AutoHotkey Foundation LLC
Our History
Our history is a quite a long story, therefore we are just keeping it to how this domain got
started:Why ahkscript.org (now autohotkey.com)? AHKScript.org was a new community
consisting of the active AutoHotkey developer(s) as well as other enthusiasts. Since, theautohotkey.com domain was no longer under the control of the developers, this newer
domain was created. New users were encouraged to migrate and participate at this newsite. However, these two domains are now reunited.
The beginning: AutoHotkey actually started in 2003.
Mid-2009: “Chris” (also known as the creator of AutoHotkey, Chris Mallett) lost interestin AutoHotkey. He had released his last version of AutoHotkey - Version 1.0.48.05.
“Lexikos” (also known as Steve Gray) had begun developing what was then a fork of
AutoHotkey named AutoHotkey_L (or AHK_L).
2009-2012: AHK_L development flourished with much long-time desired functionality,
such as Unicode, COM, arrays/objects and many others; some of which wereimplemented by fellow community members. It had become the de-facto official
AutoHotkey version.
2011: “Lexikos” started developing AutoHotkey v2-alpha.
2012: “Chris” decided to transfer ownership of the domain (autohotkey.com) and its data
to “polyethene” (A. Ahmed, formerly known as user “Titan”).
Mid-2012: “polyethene” decided to “restore” the old 2009 version of AutoHotkey(v1.0.48.05) as the official version for still not understood reasons, removing allreferences to AHK_L in the main autohotkey.com site and performing questionable
moderator actions. Immediate backlash ensued, and eventually a petition to finally make
AutoHotkey_L the official version was made.
Late 2012: After consultation with the community, AutoHotkey_L became the official
branch and now has been renamed to “AutoHotkey” or AHK 1.1 to be specific.
“Lexikos” officially became the AHK maintainer. Download links were updated
accordingly.

Late 2012: autohotkey.net (a file repository website for users to share AutoHotkey
related things such as scripts and user pages, originally created by “polyethene”) was
hacked and all files were lost.
2013: “polyethene” became completely missing, meanwhile the old forum (which hadgone through two upgrades, phpBB2->phpBB3->IP Boards) riddled in bugs.
October 2013: After “the last straw”, “tank” (also known as Charlie Simmons) stepped
in, tired of the forum bugs, and created this site. The community flooded over here(including all prominent members such as “Lexikos”, “SKAN”, “tidbit” and manyothers), basically leaving autohotkey.com in a state of stagnation. Administration ofahkscript.org was defined to work in a cooperative way, with many people with varying
power levels (instead of just forum moderators and site plenipotentiary).
April 24th, 2014: The legal entity “AutoHotkey Foundation LLC” was created.
February 6th, 2015: “Tank” was finally able to contact “polyethene”. He replied that he
was ready to hand over the domain (autohotkey.com) and give full control over it. “Tank”
was made a co-owner.
September 22nd, 2015: autohotkey.com was completely migrated to a new server (VPS),
and “polyethene” was officially demoted to the level of a normal member.
November 1st, 2015: On autohotkey.com's older forum (IPBoards), as part of the forum
transition, the ability to create new topics has been disabled. However, forum replies will
not be disabled until December 31st, 2015.
November 13th, 2015: An SSL certificate was finally added for the first time onto thewebsite.
January 1st, 2016: Replies on the older/archive forum (IPBoards) have been disabled.
If you are interested in knowing more, you may read from the following forum topics:-My status and website changes
What is happening with this site?
The future of the forum: Poll
The First StepBasics as to why AHKSCRIPT exists
autohotkey.com